Comics UK

American comics are so much easier to identify; "A ruddy great yellow ant? Oh, that's Strange Tales #73!" But here we can just see that Dennis is kicking a football. It's not a lot to go on, is it?

I think Deidre is Wednesday Addams' cousin by way of Uncle Giles!

"Doomsday School" only runs for three issues, then it reverts to "Eagle-Eye Junior Spy". Perhaps it was a try-out for a Grimly Feendish solo strip?

Two pop records with comics on the cover: Eric Clapton with "Beano" from "Bluesbreakers" (1966), and a "Topper" from the cover of "Music In A Doll's House" by Family (1968).
(Sorry about the fuzziness of the Clapton pic, I haven't got this record yet.)

Here's another from me. I found these clippings from "Cor!!" pasted in one of my old school books, illustrating a rather superficial homework essay on comics. Can anyone tell me what issue(s) they're from? I'd like to see the complete strips. I think they'd be sometime around 1971-2, before "The Goo...

Matrix, here's the "Girl" cover for 13 July 1963. I can almost smell the sea breeze!

Phil, Deidre The Weirdie first appeared in "Wham!" No 36, 20 Feb 1965, when "Eagle-Eye Junior Spy" became "Doomsday School" for a while. (That's the ish the scan's from.) She's in later stories, and also in the cast of "Grimly Feendish" in "Smash". If I had to nominate my all-time favourite comic ce...

"Mad" No 113, September 1967, U.S. edition, because that looks like 30c rather than 2/6.

I have Vol 12 No 28, 13 July 1963, and the strips are "The Girl from France" (starting on the cover), "Round Table", "A Scooter To Sydney", "Model In America", "Riverside Motel", and "Lettice". By this time, it's moving to a teen magazine format, with fashion, advice and pop articles. (And a big pos...

Thanks Phil. Where would I go for back issues? "Treasure" isn't really a comic, apart from "A Treasure Tale Of Wizard Weezle In Princess Marigold Land", and I haven't found a comic dealer that carries it.

"Ever since the dawn of time, nothing can match 'The Terror Of Tim Boo Ba!'" In other words, "Amazing Adult Fantasy" #9, just about the first American comic I ever saw. The bathetic ending of the title tale is unforgettable. Actually, once you get past the monster, some of this is quite good.

I should have posted here! Here's my first question. Can anyone identify this issue of "Playhour and TV Toyland" that my brother's reading? I've guessed about August 1968, and that's certainly Magic Roundabout on the front cover.

What's the number of that "Treasure" issue, Phil? 154?

Playhour's last issue was August 15, 1987. Here's a difficult question. This is a detail of a photo I'm trying to date. It's a campsite in Southwold, that's my brother, and the comic is "Playhour and TV Toyland". I think it's around August 1968. Can anyone identify the date of the issue? Many thanks...

Those "Mr Toad" panels are brilliant! The expressions, the gestures, and the movements are so perfect words aren't needed. That's the clever thing about nursery comic art.

The "Freddie Frog" art has looser lines than the signed work. Could they have been inked by another artist?

Peter Woolcock is my favourite funny animal artist bar none. Here's "Wally, Sammy and Harry", the Goons recreated as a weasel, a stoat, and a hamster, from the 1961 Playhour Annual. As usual with Woolcock characters, a mad scheme is tackled with innocent enthusiasm. WSH1.jpg WSH2.jpg I'd like some o...